Famous Quotes about Belief (183 Quotations)

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it –I don't need to believe it.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

They can because they think they can.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

We are all captives of the picture in our head — our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

We are what we believe we are

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.